1. The Absurd World of Strindberg’s The Dance of Death
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Orley I. Holtan
- Subjects
Absurdism ,Dance ,media_common.quotation_subject ,General Earth and Planetary Sciences ,Art history ,Art ,Content (Freudian dream analysis) ,General Environmental Science ,media_common - Abstract
August Strindberg's play, or rather pair of plays, The Dance of Death, was written in 1900, at approximately the same time as the strange and tender Easter and after his first venture into expressionism, the first two parts of To Damascus. In both form and content The Dance of Death seems to be a kind of reversion to the intensely realistic The Father of fifteen years before. Like that earlier play, it presents, as one critic has recently put it3 "marriage as a grim and ghastly form of hell on earth." 1
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- 1967
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